Bob La Quey wrote:
What do you guys think of this?
17.October.2006 - After today, you'll never look at an ordinary
shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a
prototype of the world's first virtualized datacenter--built into a
shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and
performance efficiencies.
Yawn. Late to the party. IBM has had this for years with their
midrange z/Series. Remember the commercials they were running about
replacing their servers with a single z/Series?
Anyone who would actually understand that they need something like this
isn't going to be impressed unless this is a *huge* whack cheaper than
IBM (doubtful).
And since Sparc stinks at floating point. These things are useless as
an engineering compute cluster.
The problem is that Sun keeps trying to be middle-tier vendor when there
don't exist any middle-tier customers. IBM is competitive with their
offerings from very big to the high middle.
Linux/BSD/et al. own the low end to the low middle. There is almost no
room between those two, today.
-a
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